This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of Act IV, Scene 1 of the play. It's a famous line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The world is better off without you." This is a quote from Hamlet's Hamlet, in which Hamlet says that the world is "better off without me." This quote is a reference to the fact that Hamlet was a child when his mother died, and that his father was the father who "doteed on" him before his mother's death. Hamlet says, "I have been betrayed once before, but I never gave up. I hope you can come out of the other side, not give up, because of those that have wronged you." In other words, Hamlet